Note: Your application must have the write permission for the ~/App_Data folder on the server's file system. This folder stores the search index files, so the system cannot create and update indexes without the required permissions.

Scheduling the search indexing process

By default, the smart search creates and executes indexing tasks immediately whenever content covered by a search index is created, modified or deleted.

You can disable automatic running of indexing tasks upon creation by adding the CMSProcessSearchTasksByScheduler key to the /configuration/appSettings section of your application's web.config file:

<add key="CMSProcessSearchTasksByScheduler" value="true" />

When you set this key to true:

The system only logs the search indexing tasks into the database without running them. You need to process the tasks periodically, for example using the Execute search tasks scheduled task (runs every 4 hours by default).

You cannot manually Rebuild indexes unless you also run the process that executes the indexing tasks.

Tip

You can find a list of all indexing tasks that are waiting to be processed in Smart search -> Tasks. Here you can:

Look for information if you encounter problems with new content not being indexed correctly

Delete () tasks from the indexing queue to stop unnecessary or problematic indexing